Electric-lamp bracket.



Patented June 24, 1913.

WITNESSES 'IZVVENTOR A llorney NELLIE T. ZEIGLER, 0F RENO, NEVADA.

ELECTRIC-LAMP BRACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J me 24, 1913.

Application filed June 24, 1912. Serial No. 705,653.

ple, efficient and inexpensive device which may be engaged upon a chair, bedstead, bureau, or other article to support the lamp in a position which will throw the light to any desired point.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings and will be herein fully described, the novel features being particularly pointed out in the claims following the description.

In the drawings; Figure 1.is a perspective view .of the device with the lamp indicated in dotted lines; Fig. 2 is a perspective View showing the lamp in dotted lines, but held in a difierent position, and Fig. 3 is a plan view of the device.

In carrying out my invention, I employ.

a length of stout wire 1 which is doubled on itself and has its ends brazed or otherwise firmly united. The doubled wire is then twisted about itself so that its branches will wrap about each other as shown at 2, this twisting imparting a somewhat ornamental appearance to the article and also strengthening the same as the plies or branches of the wire becomeintertwined so that they do not readily separate but each supports and reinforces the other. The doubled and twisted wire next shaped at one extremity to provide a hook 3 adapted to engage over the ed go or a projecting portion of a bureau, a chair, a bed rail or other object as may be most convenient to bring the light to the desired position, and a cushion 4 is secured around this hook to prevent marring of the article to which the bracket may be applied. I prefer to form the cushion by wrapping or otherwise securing soft textile material around the portion of the Wire which. constitutes the hook. The opposite end of the doubled and twisted strand is bent back on itself to form an open loop 5 of sufficient length and width to pass around and embrace the neck or socket of the lamp, the intermediate portion of the strand being ottset at 6, so as to furnish a fulcrum or brace which will permit-the loop to yield slightly to the weight of the lamp without disengaging the hook from the chair or other support. As the loop projects freely from the supporting portion of the bracket, it will possess considerable flexibility and resiliency so that it will readily admit the lamp socket and will accommodate various sizes of sockets' I To prevent accidental or premature release of the lamp and more firmly retain it in position, I provide a latch or retainer which is preferably in the form of a hook 7, having its stem 8 terminating in an eye 9 slidably mounted on the main length of the Wire strand. gaged in the loop 5, the free extremity of the loop 5 is engaged by the hook 7 and is thereby held in close engagement with the lamp. hen it is desired. to release the lamp the retainer is slid out of engagement with the free end of the loop which will then spring slightly outward and permit the easy withdrawal of the lamp.

My device is obviously light, si ple and inexpensive and efficiently serves the purpose for which it is designed.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States,

lS'Z- I 1. An electric lamp bracket consisting of an elongated body having one end formed into an article-engaging hook and the opposite end formed into an open loop adapted to engage an electric lamp, and a retainer slidably mounted on one side of .said loop portion and adapted to engage the free end thereof. v

a 2. An electric lamp bracket consisting of an elongated body having one end formed into an article-engaging hook and the opposite end formed into an open loop adapted to engage an electric lamp, and a hookadapted to engage the free end of the loop and having astem terminating in an eye slidably engaging the main length of the body. v I

3. An electric lamp bracket formed of a single strand of Wire doubled and twisted on itself, one end-thereof formed into an article engaging hookand the opposite end After the lamp has been enformed into an open loop adapted to enname to this spedification in the presence of gage an electric lamp, the intermediate portwo subscribing witnesses. tion of the strand being ofiseta, cushion covering said hook, and a. retainer slidably NELLIE ZEIGLER' 5 mounted on one side of said 100p and adaptn Witnesses:

ed to'engage the free end thereof. J. M. PARKER,

In testimony whereof I have slgned my FLORENCE M. READ. 

